The Embodied Methodology for Sensory Disabilities
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https://doi.org/10.6093/2284-0184/6012Keywords:
Generative Pedagogy, mobile-teaching-body, mobiligence, intercode learning environment, enabling Kinetics and TactilityAbstract
As part of the Specialization course for teaching support activities for students with disabilities and in particular in the teaching of ‘Special Didactics and learning for sensory disabilities’, the Embodied approach to cognition has been introduced (Pfeifer & Bongard, 2007) as a matrix of a methodology through which to train future support teachers to become a mobile-teaching-body (D'Ambrosio, 2016). By recovering the centrality of the sensory-motor quality of the learning activity (Berthoz, 1997), the course has proposed in the experiential form to the future support teachers some theoretical-practical tools to refine observation and listening and to be able to design and implement learning environments capable of activating and enhancing interactions in the whole environment-group-class.
Becoming a mobile-teaching-body is the goal to which learning specialists are called because they intend to support disabled students as an opportunity for methodological innovation to be activated in the whole system-class, to govern a more complex process of becoming-forming. The mobile-teaching-body embodies and therefore transfers an active pedagogy into practice, based on the aesthetic dimension of training and in particular on kinetics and tactility, and is able to give shape to 'generative' learning environments: more 'intelligent' because 'adaptive' and 'responsive', multi-user spaces and intercode-data system where interaction can take place in different ways and extend/change the cognition of those who form and those who are formed. In particular, the course focused on observation and listening as key competences of the teaching body called to support the students with disabilities, because observation and listening in action could be a condition for planning educational interventions in a situation, effective for 'special' needs and for the whole group-class.
To activate processes of Skill Assessment for mobile-teaching-body, referred in particular to observation and listening, the course proposed a self-assessment module with the DanceMovementTherapy (Diamare, 2016). This experiential space of embodied education allows exploring ways of learning based on the active inclusion of disability/diversity in the class group. It was used the Diade Card rev.3 of Motion Reading (Diamare, 2014) for the ex ante/ex post self-assessment of its motor and relational countertransference, or as a tool for monitoring a conscious inter-action. The article summarizes the reference methodology and the analysis of data referring to 139 future support teachers divided into two groups, from which it emerges that the ability to creatively explore the relationship with themselves and with others through the movement in a controlled and conscious way.
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